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From the PeaZip community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the PeaZip community

PeaZip can apply multiple content inclusion and exclusion filters (optionally recursive, and supporting wildcards) when creating and extracting archives.
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10.9.0 release keeps improving GUI performances, optimizing startup / close sequences, making more operations asynchronous, and optimizing memory usage.

Read more about the updated benchmark results:
peazip.github.io/benchmark-op...

PeaZip 10.9.0 is ready!
The new release introduces QOL updates to improve user experience: new context menus and kb shortcuts, improved reactivity, speed, internal drag&drop, handling of rar and multi volume archives, Image and Text viewers.
Full change log: peazip.github.io/changelog.html

Screenshot of PeaZip 1.0 (2006)

20 years ago, about in this time of the year, I started the journey of PeaZip project.
It has been a long way, teaching me more lessons than the ones learnt to overcome the technical challenges.
The journey has definitely been more important than the destination, I hope we will continue it together.

peazip - Overview peazip has 4 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

Shields counter on GitHub says PeaZip recently hit the mark of 1 million Flatpak installs.
A big thank to the Linux community for all the feedback, suggestions, and code contributions which made this possible, and which, day by day, make it possible to keep improving PeaZip project!

Install PeaZip on Linux | Flathub Free file archiver utility

PeaZip Flatpak 10.8.0 was updated earlier today, to improve integration with KDE6 context menu.

PeaZip is no longer on Facebook.

Today I've deleted it, choosing to focus on communities on Reddit and Bluesky.

IMHO community building is still pivotal for improvement, and a good social network should serve to collect ideas and expertise from the entire community to benefit the entire community.

Picture preview inside ZIP archive, with the integrated image viewer. Postmodern Style applied to GUI.

PeaZip 10.8.0 is ready!
The new release improves handling RAR and TAR archives, enables preview for more archive formats, adds the ability to preview items in archive with the integrated image viewer and with "File tools" functions.
Read the full change log:

From the PeaZip community on Reddit: Interesting analysis of gatekeeping on Windows, using PeaZip as example Explore this post and more from the PeaZip community

My two cents about the gatekeeping issues Windows users are increasingly experiencing.
In brief, gatekeeping is not a panacea, and to make it worse Microsoft enforces it with the bluntest and less fit tools in its arsenal.
Developers and users deserves better.

Compile and build PeaZip from sources PeaZip sources. Compile, build PeaZip cross-platform archiver, port to new Operating Systems and architectures, assemble installers for different package managers

PeaZip is Open Source, and can be compiled with Lazarus IDE starting from the standalone sources package or from its Git repository.
Read more about how to compile PeaZip, and to build installable or portable packages for different operating systems:

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PeaZip 10.7.0 updated the integrated text preview tool, extended to all platforms the ability to display thumbnails in the file browser, and introduced a new image viewer component, which can also preview images inside archives.
Read more about enhancements of preview functions in the last release:

PeaZip 10.7.0 is ready!
This update introduces an extensive sources refactoring, improves error handling and preview features, enhances the file manager and adds new integrated text viewer and image viewer tools.
Read the full change log: peazip.github.io/changelog.html

Compression benchmark: 7-Zip, PeaZip, WinRar, WinZip comparison File compression and extraction benchmark. Comparison of 7-Zip, PeaZip, WinRar, WinZip archive managerss performances for the best, fastest application.

PeaZip compression benchmark was updated today with a Linux addendum.
Gnome Archive Manager was added to utilities compared to PeaZip for compression ratio, and compression / extraction speed.
Read more:
peazip.github.io/peazip-compr...

Support | PeaZip documentation, report issues, feature requests HHow to report issues for PeaZip. Search online resources, find documentation, issue tracker to report bugs and feature requests, developer's email.

PeaZip project grew over time, publishing (and often moving) online resources for almost 20 years.
The Documentation page helps users to reach meaningful information: Issue Tracker to report bugs and feature requests, search CVE, find online Tutorial and FAQ, learn how to contribute translations...

Free file splitter, how to use file splitting utility Free file spanning software (file splitter utility). How to split files and email attachments in multiple smaller parts, merge / join spanned volumes chunks.

It is sometimes needed to split files in smaller parts, or to span archives in multiple volumes smaller than a target size - attachment or file upload limitation, digital support size, etc.
Learn how to create spanned files, and how to merge multi volume archives to extract content from all parts:

How to change PeaZip language, and contribute translations How to change PeaZip language, and localize context menu. How to contribute a translation, or maintain an existing language file

PeaZip language files are plain UTF-8 with BOM text files, which allows translations to work on all supported platforms.
A text editor is all what it is needed to contribute, or update, a localization.
Learn more:

How to open, unlock unreadable 7z rar zip files How to open unreadable or encrypted 7z rar zip archives. Remove password prompt, unlock forgotten lost passwords, recover locked data, read corrupted files.

It is sometimes needed to deal with unreadable archives.
The most important step to try to recover access to file's content is to try to understand the cause of the issue.
It may be due to a forgotten password, or random data corruption, or even to a maliciously forged archive.
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Free RAR archiver, compression utility. How to create rar files How to create RAR files, add, compress data to WinRar archive format with PeaZip free archiver and compression utility using RarLabs backend rar compressor tool.

While mainly focused on Open Source archive formats, PeaZip can optionally create RAR files from its own GUI, providing the correct CLI tools are installed in the system - either on Linux, macOS, or Windows.
Read more about creating (or updating existing) RAR archives from PeaZip:

How to create Self Extracting Archives (SFX) What are, and how to create, Self Extracting Archives (SFX files) autonomous compressed files capable of auto-extraction without requiring external software.

Self extracting archives are executable files containing both the compressed data and the required extraction routines.
The recipient will not need an utility supporting the compression format, but only the ability to run the self extracting archive - and, of course, to trust the sender.
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What is PAQ file compression format What are PAQ, LPAQ, ZPAQ file extensions. *PAQ family provides maximum compression ratio, with ZPAQ format implementing strongest compression algorithm currently available

Zpaq is the evolution of PAQ project, an extremely powerful neural network based compressor, multiple times Hutter Prize winner.
Zpaq (and the more recent Zpaqfranz project) adds journaling, AES-256 based encryption, and support for multi-threading.
Read more about *PAQ compressors family:

Compression benchmark: 7-Zip, PeaZip, WinRar, WinZip comparison File compression and extraction benchmark. Comparison of 7-Zip, PeaZip, WinRar, WinZip archive managerss performances for the best, fastest application.

PeaZip compression benchmark was updated today with a macOS addendum.
Finder integrated zip tool was added to utilities compared to PeaZip for compression ratio, and compression / extraction speed.
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Change log | PeaZip bug fixes, new features, release notes Change log of PeaZip project development: bug fixes, improvements, new features, software release notes, packages hash values.

PeaZip 10.6.1 is ready!
This minor update introduces bugfixes, updated translations, and extensively reviews the binary components (executables, codecs, sfx modules) provided within packages.
Read the full change log:

Compression benchmark: 7-Zip, PeaZip, WinRar, WinZip comparison File compression and extraction benchmark. Comparison of 7-Zip, PeaZip, WinRar, WinZip archive managerss performances for the best, fastest application.

The updated PeaZip "Benchmarks" section is now available!
peazip.github.io/peazip-compr...

benchmark test results

The journey to improve PeaZip's GUI performances continued in 10.6.0 release, with the introduction of dynamic virtual mode for the file manager.

Read more about the updated benchmark results:
www.reddit.com/r/PeaZip/com...

Change log | PeaZip bug fixes, new features, release notes Change log of PeaZip project development: bug fixes, improvements, new features, software release notes, packages hash values.

PeaZip 10.6.0 is ready!
The new release overhauls the file browser with virtual mode, improves archive pre-parsing, adds Settings search function.
Non-Windows builds can now use alternative 7z fork to support additional codecs.
Backed updated to 7z 25.01, Pea 1.26, and Zpaq is replaced by Zpaqfranz.

Fast compression: Brotli Zstandard comparative speed performances test Fast compression benchmark. Comparison of Brotli, Zstandard formats performances, br vs zst compression and extraction speed, comparative test with 7Z LZMA2, RAR PPMd, ZIP Deflate algorithms.

Brotli and Zstandard are relatively new fast and efficient data compression algorithms.
Very flexible in design, both can provide performances ranging from very fast compression to slower one with high compression ratio, depending on the settings.
This benchmark directly compares the two algorithms:

On all supported platforms, BSD, Linux, macOS, and Windows, PeaZip will automatically adapt if the system is set to dark mode.
Please note that system colors may not be correctly passed if i.e. the system DE runs on a different widgetset than PeaZip, or if the app runs containerized or sandboxed.

How to update existing 7Z TAR ZIP archives content Update files in 7Z, TAR, ZIP archives. How to replace and overwrite matching files, update old version with new, freshen and synchronize archive content.

When it is needed to update the content inside a (write-supported) archive, PeaZip offers the ability to: add new items to existing archives, delete files and folders from archives, edit archived files in place, and sync archived files with ones on disk.
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PEA file archiving and authenticated encryption utility PEA: Pack Encrypt Authenticate. Open Source free cryptography and file archiving / compression software, supporting AES in EAX mode for authenticated encryption

PeaZip can now check NTFS Alternate Data Streams, including Zone.Identifier (Mark of The Web) to spot files originated on remote systems.
Pea executable, part of PeaZip package, can batch scan multiple files/dirs for MoTW, and search SHA256 hash value online for possible match with known malware.

PeaZip benchmark

One of the main goals in 10.5.0 release was improving the performances of the file browser / archive browser component.

Read more about how PeaZip 10.5.0 compares with the previous release: www.reddit.com/r/PeaZip/com...